A quick painting of that gorgeous Pelee inhabitant. Mixed media.
Archive for July, 2008
Posted on Jul - 20 - 2008
American Redstart
Nearly a year he’s sat there on the easel in my living room, so very near completion but not quite. Painting is always an exciting process in the early stages — the life studies, the preliminary work, laying the initial compositional sketch down on that freshly stretched sheet. As time goes by, however, it becomes [ Read More ]
Posted on Jul - 06 - 2008
Lift Bridge ‘Grins
The young Peregrines at the Burlington lift bridge fledged about a week and a half ago. They’re still a long ways from independence, however, and spend most of their time resting on the girders or sharpening their skills through flight games. The male sustained an injury to his crop during a recent tussle with another [ Read More ]
Posted on Jul - 01 - 2008
Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Sumac
I can’t say the background does much for the Grosbeak’s plumage, but I had some big gobs of Yellow Ochre and Paynes Gray left in my watercolour tray from a previous work and felt the urge to use them. Loki, my three month old Dusky Parrot and practionioner of the hallowed psittacine philosphy of “everything [ Read More ]
